On Fri, Oct 30, 1998 at 11:30:29AM +0100, Ronny Svedman wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Oct 1998, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 10:16:27PM +0100, Ronny Svedman wrote:
> > > On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> > > 
> > > ttyS0 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" vt320 on secure local softcar 
> > 
> > Please check whether this getty process really is running, and send us
> > ps -l output showing it. (e.g., ps -laxw | grep getty)
> 
>     0   278   247  24  34  0   208    0 -      R+   p4    0:00.40 grep getty 
>     0 269 1 13 3 0 295 0 ttyin IWs+ S0 0:00.50 /usr/libexec/getty std.9600
> ttyS0
> 
> Oops, my mailer formatted the text.. well its only missing a few spaces.
> 
> I noticed one strange thing..
> 
> when i started kermit and 
> "set line /dev/ttyS0" 
> "set flow none"
> "set handsh none"
> "set speed 9600"
> "connect"
> 
> while this getty was running, the login banner came up after i had typed a

Uhm. I guess you tried to type a return key at the vt320?

> bit from kermit to the terminal and back, and every other character typed
> on the terminal on ttyS0 was sent to kermit, and every other char came to
> the login program.

Yes. You have to stop getty to run kermit. If both run, both will compete
for the input characters.

> Strange indeed.

No, natural.
	-is